Michaela Onyenwere of Grandview High School (12) is in the game against Eaglecrest High School at Grandview High School in Aurora on Jan. 8, 2014. Grandview won 69-22. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)

Eight Colorado girls basketball players are on the 2014 USA Basketball women’s U17 national team trials roster, the organization announced Tuesday.

Mesa Ridge’s Kylee Shook was invited to the team trials last week. She will be joined by seven more Coloradans who applied: Broomfield’s Brenna Chase, Regis Jesuit’s Taekenya Cleveland, Sand Creek’s Liah Davis and Oliana Squires, Rampart’s Kaleah Hires, Grandview’s Michaela Onyenwere and Palmer’s Abigail Torres-Drozd are from Colorado.

In all, there are 162 players from across the country — 39 of which were invited.

Onyenwere was selected to The Denver Post’s All-Colorado team as a freshman last season. Shook was an All-4A first team selection.

They will participate in skills and trials sessions from May 22-26 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The team will be announced at 8 a.m. May 26, and will play in the 2014 FIBA U17 World Championship, which takes place June 28 to July 6.

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.